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Woking’s new Covered Market opened on 4th October with the ribbon being cut by the Mayor Tony Branagan accompanied by Councillor Gary Elson and Council leader John Kingsbury. The new covered Market has been built to replace the Open Market on Victoria Way which is due to close for redevelopment in the New Year. The…

Tameside Markets are celebrating a hat-trick after winning three national awards. Staff have been named Market Team of the Year by the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA) after impressing judges with the “range and quality” of markets they provide as well as their vision and support of initiatives such as Love Your Local…

Nabma was delighted to welcome some 320 delegates to the Kensington Holiday Inn in London, as the NABMA and WUWM memberships joined forces to share their respective conferences and good practice. The conference programmes were packed with sessions around strategy, policy and operational matters linking wholesale and retail interests. The fantastic range of quality speakers…

The tender for Hounslow’s pedestrianised high street market has been won by Tudor Markets, one of London’s leading market management experts who specialise in: Street Markets; Farmers Markets; Event Management; Operations and Consultancy; Shopping Centre and Christmas Markets. Hounslow council are planning to regenerate the town centre and make a lot of improvements around the…

OpenTable is an American public company, slated to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Priceline.com, that offers online real-time restaurant-reservation service. The firm provides online reservations at about 31,000 upscale restaurants around the world seating some 15 million diners a month. The company was founded by Chuck Templeton in San Francisco, California, in 1998. Reservations…

Online advertising, also called online marketing or Internet advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to consumers. It includes email marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), social media marketing, many types of display advertising (including web banner advertising), and mobile advertising. Like other advertising media, online…

Kingston is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London. It is the ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned and is situated 10 miles southwest of Charing Cross, as well as being one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. Having stood the test…

Running away to join the circus instead of getting a proper job was always a story I heard growing up as a kid and wondered what on earth adults were talking about? I have just arrived home from watching the Circus show ‘Fantasia’, which is doing a tour of the north west at the moment…

Local Councillors recently inspected Market Walk, the new Covered Market in Woking which opens this month. The £4million project is part of wider Town Centre improvements by the Borough Council which include refurbishing the 1970’s Wolsey Place Shopping Centre and repaving Commercial Way, the retail heart of Woking. Market Walk replaces the existing Open Market…